Sounds about right. Same way productivity is the same, however you distribute it. Except in the costs of the modules themselves, so certain steps are better. Not quite. Unlike with productivity, you can take quality a step further by having parallel production chains with quality modules that kick ...

Tinyboss wrote: ↑Sun Nov 10, 2024 9:04 pm

• Nuclear reactors generate much more heat for the same fuel.

Is that so? The wiki describes their energy consumption as scaling directly to their increased power output.

I'm confused. First, on the realism: you can't put a lower end processor in a higher-grade computer. If my i9 goes out, I can't just get a cheaper i7 to replace it with willy-nilly. That's how quality works--you're not trying to use a shiny electronics circuit in place of a dull one, you're trying ...

You're not actually making it worse, just pretending its worse for the sake of shoving it into lower-quality recipes. That's why I've used "down-binning" instead of "down-grading" when talking about this subject. But, requiring the player to explicitly and deliberately lose an it...

This is in practice worse then the current situation, because it will be way harder for players unfamiliar with the quality system to learn when they're using it wrong. Quality that mysteriously disappears is much harder to spot then quality that clogs up your production line. To clarify, I'm think...

I've created a proof-of-concept mod that implements down-grading (down-binning) with chests and scripting.

https://mods.factorio.com/mod/quality-down-binning Trying for Rare's but getting your smelters clogged up with Uncommons, that you can't even throw into infinite technologies because you don't have an entire duplicate factory for Uncommon inputs? Then this mod is the solution for you! Take after the...

Rather than allowing higher quality items as inputs, I think it would make more sense to be able to down- bin excess items of a given quality by turning them into a lower quality. This is directly analogous to how excess high-quality items are handled in real-world manufacturing, which is to simply ...

Another way the Compilatron helps us keep the immersion intact is as a plot agent. Currently campaign plot events just 'happen' when objectives are completed, or when characters internal monologue decides the next move. Now we can have Compilatron act as a driving force to the campaign, it gives th...

Holy frack, that commentator's new follower animation is obnoxious.

Wait - this update to lasers is potentially huge - will they deal their damage 'continuously' or still deal damage as more discrete pulses? If this becomes continuous, then laser shooting speed will go away and lasers will essentially no longer have any overkill, which is effectively a huge buff. T...

I feel like once the game is released, (and i know this has been mentioned before, but tentatively) the devs should really consider open sourcing the code. Because there are some very enthusiastic and talented people out here that might actually be able to take the time to go through and figure thi...

pleegwat wrote:A linked list of multiply-inheriting classes? I'd have expected an array of structs.

I'm surprised to. I'd have expected C++ to handle virtual function calls and inheritance at compile-time, but apparently things are setup so that some of the required class structure isn't known until run-time?

I reiterate my previous concern about the pump graphic redesign: by appearance, the new design makes them look like positive displacement pumps, but fluid mechanics currently treats them like centrifugal pumps. If you're going to combine the two, then the pump animation should at least slow down to ...

Do mods have to be loaded at game start? I've always thought it would be nice if they could be selected and loaded on a per-save basis, so that you don't have to mess with files just to go from one multiplayer server to another.

I feel like 0.15 might be something like this: New gameplay features: 1200 programmer hours Troubleshooting those features: 2400 programmer hours Performance: 1000 programmer hours Misc. crash and hang bugs: 400 programmer hours HD textures: 0 programmer hours Speaker: 25 programmer minutes You peop...

Seems to have gone away, even with the factory in high production. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I seem to have some intermittent slowdowns that weren't happening before. Every so often, the game will slow down to about half speed for a second. I'm playing the same save as before, when this didn't happen. Also, before, my factory was running at full tilt. Right now, when these slowdowns are ha...

I seem to have some intermittent slowdowns that weren't happening before. Every so often, the game will slow down to about half speed for a second. I'm playing the same save as before, when this didn't happen. Also, before, my factory was running at full tilt. Right now, when these slowdowns are hap...

Hope not. I don't want performance issues to be governing how factories look. Unfortunately, I feel like this game is always going to be CPU-bound, and there will always be strategies for players to reduce CPU. It's mostly a question of when the limit is reached. If 99% of players never have to thi...